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State Board of Education

Guidance Document Change: The 2020 Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 753 directing the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) to develop guidance standards for social emotional learning (SEL) for all public students in grades Kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Social Emotional Learning Standards were developed in collaboration with an SEL Advisory Committee, composed of educators, community leaders, agency personnel, and parents. The Virginia SEL Standards are aligned with the Profile of a Virginia Graduate and centered in equity. This intentional focus allows the Standards to explicitly teach the skills needed to be “life ready” and to create more equitable learning environments.

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5/20/21 7:34 pm

Commenter: Parent

Job of Parents - Teachers Should Spend Time with Reading, Writing, Math & Science

Particularly after this year, teachers need to spend more time teaching the basics, reading, writing, math, science, and history. Students are behind in so many topics and more time should be spent on core classes. This is a topic that should be left to parents, psychiatrists, and doctors. Teachers are not qualified to teach these topics. It is also crosses over into morality, which is also another topic that the school has no place teaching. I understand that some parents do not teach this, but that is a one on one issue not a school wide issue.

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